The movie "Vera Drake"

Vera Drake is the name of a movie that was created in 2004, but it based in the fifties, in London, Britain. The movie shows the kind of life that the people have in that time. We see the differences between the high class and the working class. In this case, Drake family belongs to a working class who seem so happy together. Drake looks so kind in the movie because she feels useful to the people and she helps everyone as much as she can. However, that gesture of kindness ends badly.

In the movie there are some social and political references. In the fifties, women were second class citizens, they had the right to vote since 1920, but they didn’t hold office in any large numbers. Also, according to the “women rights”, men decided if they wanted to have sex with the woman that they had chosen. Given this, the woman did not have any choice, they can’t say that they didn’t want because the right of man prevailed upon woman's. According to this, also if the man had to have the baby, the woman had to have it. There is a part in the movie which shows a man kissing and touching a woman who doesn’t want to make it, but finally he gets it. Another reference is that the women apart of raising her children, keeping the house clean and cooking, they could go to work outside of  her  home. They used to work in the factories or they worked in the field because the men in this period had to go to the war and they leave their jobs, but when they came back they wanted their jobs back too. The protagonist, Vera Drake, has two jobs, one in the factory and the other one cleaning the houses of rich people. Another reference which is important in this period is the rights of black women. They had a lot less rights than white women. Black women were discriminated against, just because they were black. The movie shows a black women crying because of her sad situation.

The film is socially realistic because that happened in the fifties. It shows a lot of interesting characteristics that are interesting to know. To become as we are, the women have fought for the rights that we have now. The women were treated as if they were less important than the men. But any men thought how they were if they weren’t women just because they didn’t lift any finger to do things in the house. The women started doing a lot of strikes to win their rights and they got it. 

So it’s interesting to see movies like this one and see what happened in the past for understand why the things are like this now.

I hope you enjoy it. :)

The phone is better far away. Introduction-Conclusion.

The phone is a remote communication tool that allows the reproduction of voice and sound to be transmited to remote locations, using electricity. Nowadays we cannot live without our cell phones especially because they are so useful to our way of live. We need a phone to be in contact with people every minute of every day, and not only to be in contact, but also, to have internet, listen to music, play games, check the weather, and for the time... 

However they have disadvantages too because of the electromagnetic waves which the cell phones have. 

Much research has been done about this and although every study has it's own results, most of them show the same thing. Firstly, that cell phones can cause headaches and insomnia which n my case, is true, and secondly, that prones are associated with a risk of cancer. However, in the last few years, the number of cases of cancer has not increased more than before, which is odd given the high use of cell phones. The bottom line is that their electromagnetic waves are not goof for us, so, we should take certain steps to save our health. 1) It's better to sent text messages rather tan make calls. 2)It's better to have leave your phone at least at 3 metres away from you while you are sleeping. 3) If youy pgone is on and you put it in a drawer, this will reduce the radiation but will not block it, so it it is better to turn the phone off when you are not going to use it for a few hours. 4) Research shows it is better not to talk on the phone with someone when the phone is charging because it can get hot and may explode. These are wise spets to take, especially for people who use their cell phone continuously. 

Overall, this is an issue which some people don't even think about, but they should because of the problems they can cause. Maybe, this is not important for some people because they think that nothing is going to happen to them, but it easily could. It is not good having the cell phone near you all time, especially when you are sleeping, so they shoulg be placed away from you. 

BLACK chocolate. 

Can you imagine how many good things has the black chocolate for you?

 1. It has antioxidants that protect your cells and they delay aging.
 2. It helps to balance your blood pressure.
 3. Chocolate triggers similar feelings to fall in love because it stimulates endorphin production methods.
 4. Black chocolate have a lot less fat than white chocolate and milk chocolate.
 5. It improves digestion and it stimulates the kidneys.
6.The brain function gets better with black chocolate.
 7. It improves fatigue symptoms, physical function, depression and anxiety.

Put black chocolate in your life :)


 

Overweight. -Outline-

I. Million of people (specially americans) are overweight or obesity. Being overweight or obesity puts you at risk for many health problems. Your weight is the result of many factors, such as, family, environment or habits.

II. Family habits can lead you to a bad feeding.
  a) The type of food that you eat to bring you to be overweight.
  b) When do you realised that this is a problem?
  c) Can your family help to avoid it?

III. Environment and habits can lead you to a bad feeding too.
  a) The kind of food that you buy to bring to your house.
  b) If you do not want to spend enough money, you are going to go to the cheapest restaurant where there are fast food.
  c)Mc Donal's, Burguer King or KFC draw people who are get use to eat badly.

IV. Serious problems of overweight.
  a) Type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure.
  b) Problems which can end with your life such as certain cancers or breathing problems.

V. If your weight is caused by one of the factor that I said, you can avoid it because you have the opportunity to have a good life and you can live as much as you can. There are other people that can have the same problem that you because of other factors like the genetic or  the metabolism. These people have more difficulty to overcome their weight. So if you can avoid it, do it, save your life.

FUTBUBBLE

Maybe you don't know what is Futbubble, I did not know neither, but here we go!  Watch this video: http://www.telecinco.es/informativos/sociedad/Futbubble-nueva-moda-despedidas-solteros_2_1859580033.html 

This sport is already in Granada, it's a good way to have fun with your friends. Shock and pushes to play football in a giant bubble. If you don't like football I'm sure that you will like in this way!

ENDANGERED ANIMALS.  Problem-Solution composition

Endangered animals have always been a big problem. We have already lost many animals such as grizzli bears, they were killed because for attacking cattles; japanese sea lions habitats were destroyed because of the Second War World; goat of the Pyreness, the last one of which died when a tree fell on it; the Javan Tiger, were killed off by the Indonesians although some people believe there is still one tiger left in the largest Java mountain; caribean monk seal, which were killed between the 1700s and the 1800s by people who wanted their fat to use in machinery and lamps, etc. 

Javan Tiger 

Caribean monk seal 

Japanese sea lion

Grizzly Bears

I'm very sad that these animals don't exist anymore and they were killed trough no fault of their own. They are animals, they kill other animals to feed themselves and they have their own habitats which sould not be disturbed by people. Given this was not stopped before, shows that people do not care and that they only have their interests at heart, such as getting fat from the caribean monk seal to use in their machinery.  Futhermore, animals need to adapt to the changes of the environment which takes time so if the changes occur suddenly, they cannot adapt in time and consequently die off as a species.

There are things we can do to protect the animals from natural disasters and from hunters. To prevent the animals from becoming endangered, we need to know about their habitats so we can learn to respect them and stop making such drastic changes to the environment. An alternative solution to avoid the animals becoming endangered, is to increase the penalties for trafficking offenses involving animals, although this would mean tracking these animals in order to catch them attacking the animals, wich would require more control in the animal- free areas. Using natural few resources, preventing overexploitation, and investing more funding in the breeding endangered animals are other possible  solutions to this problem, although it would take a lot of work.

In conclusion we should leave endangered animals alone. We should not killing them but taking care of them, especially if they are victims of a natural disaster. We have to protect them as much as we can and move them to safer places if they are problems in their original habitats.